Contributors of Articles

Lindsay J. Benstead is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University. She has conducted public opinion surveys in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia (with Ellen Lust), Libya (with Ellen Lust and Jakob Wichmann), and Jordan (with Kristen Kao, Ellen Lust, and Jakob Wichmann).

George Crowder is a Professor in the School of Social and Policy Studies, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. His books include Liberalism and Value Pluralism, Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism, and Theories of Multiculturalism: An Introduction. He is also co-editor (with Henry Hardy) of The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin.

Alicja Curanović is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Relations (Faculty of Journalism and Political Studies) at the University of Warsaw. She has a PhD in political science. Her research interests include international relations in the post-Soviet area, Russian foreign policy, the religious factor in international relations, and perception, identity and image in politics. She is the author of The Religious Factor in Russia's Foreign Policy.

Peter S. Henne is a Research Associate with the Pew Research Center.

Melanie Kolbe is Doctoral Candidate at the University of Georgia.

John F. McCauley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also a Research Associate at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management. His research focuses on the politics of religion, ethnicity, development, and Africa.

David Muchlinski is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science at University of Nebraska, Omaha. Dr. Muchlinski has also taught at Midland Lutheran College in Midland, NE. His research interests include civil, religious, and ethnic conflict, the abilities of non-state actors to provide public goods in weak and failed states, and Israeli politics and history.

Niels Spierings is a Fellow in Political Sociology at the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and he is Visiting Fellow at the Centre of the Analysis of Social Exclusion (LSE). His research interests include gender issues and democratization in the Middle East (including the role of Islam), political participation and representation, political communication (social media in particular), gender inequalities, and migration and ethnicity.

Teresa M. Bejan is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her work on religious toleration in early modern English political thought has appeared in History of European Ideas, Oxford Review of Education, and several edited volumes. She is currently completing a book manuscript, Mere Civility: Tolerating Disagreement in Early Modern England and America.

Riaz Hassan is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia and Visiting Research Professor, Institute of South Asian Studies National University of Singapore. He is the author of, most recently, Islam and Society: Sociological Explorations and Life as a Weapon: The Global Rise of Suicide Bombings.

Jørgen S. Nielsen is a Hon. Professor at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, where he headed the Centre for European Islamic Thought. He holds degrees in Arabic and Arab history and has researched on Islam in Europe since the late 1970s.

Beesan Sarrouh is a Doctoral Candidate in the Political Studies department at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Her dissertation examines the institutional accommodation of Muslim minorities in the field of education, focusing on the cases of England, Scotland, Ontario, and Quebec.

Matthew Scherer is an Assistant Professor of Government and Politics in the School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs at George Mason University where teaches courses in modern and contemporary political theory. He is the author of Beyond Church and State: Democracy, Secularism, and Conversion.

Edith Szanto is an Assistant Professor at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. She received her PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Toronto in 2012 and is currently researching contemporary Islam in Syria and Iraq.